French language Q&A Forum

By writing "à moins que tu ne SOIT" instead of " "à moins que tu ne SOIS", Kwizbot deemed it necessary to reduce the measure of MY confidence in this question by 31.3 % percentage points. To recover this  "loss" in MY confidence, I had to repeat the question 7 times. Honestly, does this make any sense at all!!!

Based on the user questions here as well as on some other lessons, it seems Kwiziq would be well served to have some learners review the lessons to see if they are clear enough. I know I've seen quite a few pages that were unclear due to insufficient explanation or examples. (I just finished 4 semesters of French, so I'm not really learning but trying not to let it slip away. Still, I have noticed lessons that aren't as clear and/or complete as they could be.)

I just wanted to offer that it helps me to remember the correct use of this verb if I think about it in this way.

   "Je lui manque" = "I am missed by her/him." -> (ie. S/he misses me.)

   "Nous manquons à Pat." = " We are missed by Pat." (ie. Pat misses us.)

This method helps me to remember 1) the order of the sentence, 2) the subject to use to conjugate the verb, and 3) that there is an indirect object (by, à) so you have to use an indirect pronoun (or à if using a noun).

Can you please add more sentences for this lesson? For instance, there is no sentence for "Nous pouvons" :(

Thank you

What does he prefer to drink? : ___ il préfère boire?

The correct answer is marked as > is incorrect.

Any explanations will be much appreciated!

pourquoi vous êtes retourné au lieu de êtes retournés

In the writing challenge: Not the festival type, the translation given for "If I'd known how it would be" is  Si j'avais su  comment ça se passerait

May I know why  we use plus-que-perfect in the “Si” clause and a conditionnel present in the result clause?  Based on what I have learned in French grammar,  when the pluperfect tense is used in the “Si” clause,  the past conditional tense has to be used in the result clause. 

In exercise "Fishing with my father C1". Could you please explain the use of devais in 

je ne devais pas avoir plus de dix ans. If it's; I mustn't have been... isn't that the passe composse ?

Why is the sentence fragment "J'écoute du Beethoven" and not "J'écoute à Beethoven"? When would someone use 'écouter à' vs 'écouter de'?

This is a contribution to help others who might find this confusing:

In French, there are certain sentence constructions or even verbs that could be made negative with just the addition of "ne". The addition of "pas" and the likes isn't necessary. This concept is called "Ne littéraire". 

Clauses containing "si" are one of those instances where the Ne littéraire could be used.

For further study of the concept, check: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/ne-litteraire/